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Paris, 1749: A Cabaret-Lecture<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:-22.5pt;text-align:center;
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Italian Comedians
c. 1720
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">Presented by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot"><b>Robert Darnton<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot">Harvard University, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
and Director of the Harvard University Library<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot">&<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot"><b>Hélène Delavault<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot">Mezzo-soprano<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">with<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:Didot"><b>Ariadne Smith<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">Wednesday, October 29, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">7 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">Killian Hall (14W-111)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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font-family:"Gill Sans"">A dessert buffet outside Killian Hall will follow the
concert/lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica">Co-sponsored by the Contemporary French Studies Fund in
Foreign Languages and Literatures and the History Faculty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For further information contact
Kristen Ferry, <a href="mailto:kferry@mit.edu">kferry@mit.edu</a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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